Our collection contains 17 quotes who is written / told by Terry.
17 Famous quotes by Terry Goodkind
"The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking"
"If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?"
"I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years"
"I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier"
"No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side"
"They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat"
"Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed"
"I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'"
"The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is"
"I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step"
"After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe"
"I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine"
"After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'"
"It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!"
"Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind"
"Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it"
"Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story"
